Making AgoraCart Your Own - Customization
AgoraCart has the capability to be customized as much or as little as you want. In fact, our own order system at Denver Web Host uses AgoraCart. Basic customization such as the store title, colors, and fonts can be accomplished via the store manager. Please see our "
Getting Started" document for more information on these basic options.More advanced customization can be accomplished by editing a number of different files in the store directory on the server. The easiest way to accomplish this is to download the files to your local computer via FTP, modify them as needed, then reupload them to the server. You should backup any files before you modify them just in case.Again, basic customization can be accomplished via the store manager.
Please see our "Getting Started" document for more information on these basic options.AgoraCart, uses store header and footer files to allow your store to have a consistent yet changeable look thru out your store.
AgoraCart uses actually two sets of header and footer files: standard and secure. The standard header files are called up by the shopping cart for the product pages generated on the fly when shopping, for store search results, for misc pages that you designate (such as main pages in the html directory or the html/pages directory.
The secure headers and footers are used during the checkout process for such pages as the actual order forms and thankyou pages used to complete your customer's transactions. These tend to have less graphics and less links to distract your customer as well as to ensure tighter security when calling up images needed to complete the look of your store during the secure ordering process (if used in your store).
If you do wish to edit these files yourself they can be found in the html/html-templates sub directory (go to the "html" sub directory, then navigate to the "html-templates" sub directory). The header and footer files are basically html or text files and are as follows:
store_header.inc (standard header)
store_footer.inc (standard footer)
secure_store_header.inc (secure header)
secure_store_footer.inc (secure footer)
As mentioned above, it is easiest to download these files, modify them, then upload them back to the server. When modifying them, you can rename them with a .htm extension in order to allow your web editing software to view them properly. Be sure to rename them back to their original names when uploading!
Further customization, including modifying the product pages and such can be accomplished by changing other files in the store directory. Please refer to our AgoraCart resources page for additional help resources or feel free to contact us.
